BRAIN scans on Gulf War veterans in the United States who are
suffering from debilitating diseases may have resolved why
130,000 US and British servicemen and women complain of mystery
illnesses.

Research discovered that disabled veterans of the 1991 war
suffered chemical changes in their brains, similar to the onset
of Parkinson's and Huntington's disease.

The findings of the research, which have not yet been published,
were revealed yesterday at the second day of a US congressional
hearing into so-called Gulf War syndrome, being held in the
Palace of Westminster. British veterans who were present looked
shocked.

After detailed medical examination of one battalion of 249
soldiers from the 700,000 US troops who were deployed to the
Gulf, Robert Haley of the Southwestern Medical Centre at the
University of Texas found that the brain cellular structure of
the sick veterans had been damaged.

Speaking in a committee room of the House of Lords, Dr Haley
said he had uncovered evidence of "chemical disturbance" in
the brain. A similar study of British veterans by Goran Jamal,
consultant physician at Imperial College School of Medicine,
London University, which also revealed brain damage, had been
ignored by the authorities, Dr Haley said.

His own research, he said, had also shown that Gulf War veterans
were two to three times more likely to suffer from motor neurone
disease than other people.

The damage to the brain was likely to have been caused by the
use of organophosphate pesticides to kill desert flies and lice
at the American and British tented camps in Saudi Arabia; the
anti-nerve gas tablets and vaccines given to frontline troops
and inhalation of chemicals after the Americans bombed an Iraqi
chemical weapons store.
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